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<title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>

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<productname>&COMMANDNAME;</productname>

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<productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>

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<firstname>Björn</firstname>

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<surname>Påhlsson</surname>

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<email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>

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</address>

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</author>

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<firstname>Teddy</firstname>

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<surname>Hogeborn</surname>

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<email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>

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</address>

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</author>

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<holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>

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<holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>

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</copyright>

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<para>

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This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it

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and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public

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License as published by the Free Software Foundation,

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either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any

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later version.

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<para>

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This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will

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be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the

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implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A

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PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License

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for more details.

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</para>

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<para>

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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public

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License along with this program; If not, see

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<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"/>.

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</para>

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<refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>

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<refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>

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Sends encrypted passwords to authenticated Mandos clients

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</refpurpose>

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</refnamediv>

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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>

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<arg choice="opt">--interface<arg choice="plain">IF</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--address<arg choice="plain">ADDRESS</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--priority<arg choice="plain">PRIORITY</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--servicename<arg choice="plain">NAME</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--configdir<arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--debug</arg>

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</cmdsynopsis>

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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>

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<arg choice="opt">-a<arg choice="plain">ADDRESS</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--priority<arg choice="plain">PRIORITY</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--servicename<arg choice="plain">NAME</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--configdir<arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg></arg>

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<arg choice="opt">--debug</arg>

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</cmdsynopsis>

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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>

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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>

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<arg choice="plain">--version</arg>

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</cmdsynopsis>

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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>

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<arg choice="plain">--check</arg>

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</cmdsynopsis>

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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>

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<para>

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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> is a server daemon which

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handles incoming request for passwords for a pre-defined list of

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client host computers. The Mandos server uses Zeroconf to

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announce itself on the local network, and uses TLS to

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communicate securely with and to authenticate the clients. The

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Mandos server uses IPv6 to allow Mandos clients to use IPv6

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link-local addresses, since the clients will probably not have

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any other addresses configured (see <xref linkend="overview"/>).

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Any authenticated client is then given the stored pre-encrypted

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password for that specific client.

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<title>PURPOSE</title>

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The purpose of this is to enable <emphasis>remote and unattended

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rebooting</emphasis> of client host computer with an

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<emphasis>encrypted root file system</emphasis>. See <xref

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linkend="overview"/> for details.

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<title>OPTIONS</title>

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Show a help message and exit

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<term><literal>-i</literal>, <literal>--interface <replaceable>

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IF</replaceable></literal></term>

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Only announce the server and listen to requests on network

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interface <replaceable>IF</replaceable>. Default is to

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use all available interfaces.

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<term><literal>-a</literal>, <literal>--address <replaceable>

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ADDRESS</replaceable></literal></term>

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If this option is used, the server will only listen to a

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specific address. This must currently be an IPv6 address;

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an IPv4 address can be specified using the

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<quote><literal>::FFFF:192.0.2.3</literal></quote> syntax.

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Also, if a link-local address is specified, an interface

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should be set, since a link-local address is only valid on

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a single interface. By default, the server will listen to

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all available addresses.

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PORT</replaceable></literal></term>

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If this option is used, the server to bind to that

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port. By default, the server will listen to an arbitrary

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port given by the operating system.

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</varlistentry>

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<term><literal>--check</literal></term>

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Run the server’s self-tests. This includes any unit

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tests, etc.

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</varlistentry>

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<term><literal>--debug</literal></term>

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If the server is run in debug mode, it will run in the

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foreground and print a lot of debugging information. The

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default is <emphasis>not</emphasis> to run in debug mode.

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<term><literal>--priority <replaceable>

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PRIORITY</replaceable></literal></term>

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GnuTLS priority string for the TLS handshake with the

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clients. The default is

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<quote><literal>SECURE256:!CTYPE-X.509:+CTYPE-OPENPGP</literal></quote>.

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See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnutls_priority_init

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</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>

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for the syntax. <emphasis>Warning</emphasis>: changing

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this may make the TLS handshake fail, making communication

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with clients impossible.

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<term><literal>--servicename <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>

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</literal></term>

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Zeroconf service name. The default is

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<quote><literal>Mandos</literal></quote>. You only need

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to change this if you for some reason want to run more

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than one server on the same <emphasis>host</emphasis>,

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which would not normally be useful. If there are name

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collisions on the same <emphasis>network</emphasis>, the

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newer server will automatically rename itself to

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<quote><literal>Mandos #2</literal></quote>, and so on;

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therefore, this option is not needed in that case.

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</literal></term>

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Directory to search for configuration files. Default is

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<quote><literal>/etc/mandos</literal></quote>. See

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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>

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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

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This program is the server part. It is a normal server program

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and will run in a normal system environment, not in an initial

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RAM disk environment.

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The Mandos server announces itself as a Zeroconf service of type

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<quote><literal>_mandos._tcp</literal></quote>. The Mandos

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client connects to the announced address and port, and sends a

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line of text where the first whitespace-separated field is the

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protocol version, which currently is

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<quote><literal>1</literal></quote>. The client and server then

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start a TLS protocol handshake with a slight quirk: the Mandos

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server program acts as a TLS <quote>client</quote> while the

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connecting Mandos client acts as a TLS <quote>server</quote>.

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The Mandos client must supply an OpenPGP certificate, and the

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fingerprint of this certificate is used by the Mandos server to

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look up (in a list read from <filename>clients.conf</filename>

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at start time) which binary blob to give the client. No other

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authentication or authorization is done by the server.

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<title>Mandos Protocol (Version 1)</title><tgroup cols="3"><thead>

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<entry>Mandos Client</entry>

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<entry>Direction</entry>

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<entry>Mandos Server</entry>

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<entry>Connect</entry>

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<entry>TLS handshake <emphasis>as TLS <quote>server</quote>

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<entry>OpenPGP public key (part of TLS handshake)</entry>

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The server will, by default, continually check that the clients

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are still up. If a client has not been confirmed as being up

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for some time, the client is assumed to be compromised and is no

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longer eligible to receive the encrypted password. The timeout,

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checker program, and interval between checks can be configured

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both globally and per client; see <citerefentry>

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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

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The server will send log messaged with various severity levels

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to <filename>/dev/log</filename>. With the

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<option>--debug</option> option, it will log even more messages,

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and also show them on the console.

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The server will exit with a non-zero exit status only when a

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Use the <option>--configdir</option> option to change where

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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> looks for its configurations

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files. The default file names are listed here.

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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details.

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List of clients and client-specific settings. See

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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details.

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<userinput>mandos</userinput>

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the <filename>~/mandos</filename> directory, and use the

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Zeroconf service name <quote>Test</quote> to not collide with

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<title>SERVER</title>

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does have the OpenPGP key of the stored fingerprint. This is

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guaranteed by the fact that the client sends its OpenPGP

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public key in the TLS handshake; this ensures it to be

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genuine. The server computes the fingerprint of the key

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itself and looks up the fingerprint in its list of

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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>)

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except the user running the server.

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client computers will continually be checked and be assumed

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compromised if they are gone for too long.

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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>

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Zeroconf service announcements.

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Unicast Addresses</citation>

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immediately usable since a link-local addresses is

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Format</citetitle></citation>

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